A Quote by Rumi

People who repress desires often turn, suddenly, into hypocrites.

Rumi

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Rumi
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September 30, 1207 - December 17, 1273

The world is full of people with different characters and temperaments. We all have a dark side, a tendency to manipulate, and aggressive desires. The most dangerous types are those who repress their desires or deny the existence of them, often acting them out in the most underhanded ways.

Robert Greene

When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to not arm people to repress.

Jean-Bertrand Aristide

There has never been a truly selfless rebel, just hypocrites—conscious hypocrites or unconscious hypocrites, it’s all the same.

Frank Herbert

Wouldn't it be great if people could get to live suddenly as often as they die suddenly?

Katharine Hepburn

Frequently we're asked to come in when the Tao is conflict and crisis. We encourage people to let that Tao happen and not repress it. Especially in new age circles, people just hate conflict and try to repress it.

Arnold Mindell

Presidential elections always turn on personalities, they turn on how campaigns are run, they turn on natural desires for change.

Barack Obama

It is false to suggest that men must turn away from his desires in the interest of a higher duty. Men only responds to duty if he desires to do so. To understand men, you must understand their desires and the relative strength of those desires.

Bertrand Russell

Historical hypocrites have themselves carried out the very human rights abuses that they suddenly decide warrant intervention elsewhere.

Samantha Power

We are all sinners. But may the Lord not let us be hypocrites. Hypocrites don’t know the meaning of forgiveness, joy and the love of God.

Pope Francis

Thus one can observe that those who proclaim piety as their goal and purpose usually turn into hypocrites.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

People sometimes turn out to be almost the opposite of how they present. It isn't because they're trying to fool you or because they're hypocrites. It's because they badly want to be that thing, and so they'll try to be it.

Mary Gaitskill

I think with Shakespeare you can be required to do absolutely anything at the turn of a sixpence - suddenly you go into a battle, suddenly you utter something passionate.

Ian Mckellen

We're either awake or we're sleeping. During the time that we're awake, we work very hard at denying things, mainly because we have to function as people. We have to control and repress everything that we're fearful of, because it doesn't make sense to go crazy on the streets, but in reality we hide and we hide, repress and repress, our fears of the world of violence, of separation, of death, and sometimes hopes, and some things that are very joyful, reunions or all of those good things. It's only in dreams that we're really truthful with whatever hurts most; they're really very real.

Shirin Neshat

Good people suddenly don't turn bad.

Greg Gutfeld

The repression of virtuous instinct in the modern world is an incremental tragedy. Repress one instinct, and you repress many; other parts of consciousness go down, also.